Job description

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer / Infrastructure Lead role is a senior technical leadership position responsible for full ownership of a large-scale, mission-critical enterprise infrastructure within a highly regulated environment in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The role covers on-premises, virtualized, and hybrid infrastructure landscapes and requires hands-on expertise combined with strong governance and vendor management capabilities. The position leads and manages enterprise infrastructure supporting multiple business-critical and high-volume transactional systems, ensuring performance, availability, resilience, and compliance with security, audit, and regulatory standards. Responsibilities span infrastructure operations, data centre environments, server, storage, networking, and virtualization platforms, while leading complex transitions from outsourced vendors to in-house or hybrid operating models. The role oversees multi-vendor environments, defines infrastructure standards, policies, and governance frameworks, and drives disaster recovery and business continuity strategies including DR, BC, RPO, and RTO planning and testing. The position leads incident response for major outages across 24/7 production environments, applies security hardening, patching, and vulnerability management practices, and leverages monitoring and logging platforms such as SolarWinds, Zabbix, Prometheus, Splunk, and ELK. The role requires expert-level knowledge of Linux and Windows Server, VMware vSphere components including ESXi, vCenter, HA, DRS, and NSX, enterprise storage technologies such as SAN and NAS across EMC, NetApp, Dell, and HPE, as well as backup and DR platforms including Veeam, Commvault, and NetBackup. Experience with cloud platforms, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code is highly advantageous, alongside the responsibility to mentor and guide senior and junior engineers in a complex regulated enterprise environment.